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Richard Rowles

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Richard Rowles
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born3 January 1973 (1973-01-03) (age 51)
Lae, Papua New Guinea
Sport
SportBoxing
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Victoria Welterweight

Richard Rowles (born 3 January 1973) is a former light middleweight boxer, who represented Australia at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Born in Lae, in Papua New Guinea, Rowles later on moved to Brisbane, where he was based at Brisbane's Lang Park Amateur Boxing Club, alongside Lang Park.

He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[1]

References

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  1. ^ "AIS at the Olympics". ausport.gov.au. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
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